Hello,
I recently started Cimzia, about 1 week ago. The night after my injection I had really bad joint pains, on my hips, my neck and shoulders. Usually I am not bothered with joint pain. Then the next night, my lymph nodes in my neck became really swollen and I developed a sore throat. I thought I was just getting a cold but when I say swollen I mean they kept getting larger and larger. By Sat, my throat had white patches in the back and I had a fever of 100 and could barely swallow liquids but the joint pain got better. I went to the ER on Sun because of my side-effects plus my crohns pain has gotten really bad again. I was just wondering if anybody else has had similar reactions with any of the TNF blocking meds. I was on Remicade for over a year and on Humira for a year. On Humira I developed shingles and had to stop therapy. One of my shingles got infected with MRSA. So I have tried everything just about except Tysabri and currently in a flare. They want to keep using Cimzia.